Joseph W. Lowery
"Dreamweaver CS3 Bible"
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Using Repeating Elements 29
Two items are of interest here. First, notice how the Library demarcation surrounds not just the text
(Copyright (c) 2007) but all its formatting attributes as well. Library items can do far more than just
cut and paste raw text. The second thing to note is that the Library markers are placed discretely within
HTML comments. Web browsers ignore the Library markers and render the code in between them.
The value in the opening Library code, ???/Library/Copyright.lbi???, is the source file for the Library
entry. This file is located in the Library folder, inside of the current site root folder. Library source (.lbi)
files can be opened with a text editor or in Dreamweaver; they consist of plain HTML code without the
and tags.
The .lbi file for the title example contains the following:
Copyright © 2007
The power of repeating elements is that they are simply HTML. You need not learn proprietary languages to
customize Library items. Anything, except for information found in the header of a Web page, can be
included in a Library file.
The importance of the